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I don't believe in forcing anyone to do what your religion says you should do. I don't care what country it is, Muslim or not. Respect and be respected. You may not be able to drink juice on Ramadan because you're muslim. I am not muslim so I will drink juice. In your place of worship, I will be respectful of your religion. I will not necessarily say the prayers of your religion, but I will refrain from doing disrespectful things in that location. But on the street? Mutual respect. Just turn this around - if you're in a catholic country and you're muslim, do you suddenly change religion or beliefs to comply with their rules? I think not. Tolerance is a good thing.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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